"Abbas’ Guardian Op-Ed Illustrates the Dishonesty of the ‘Palestinian Narrative’

by Adam Levick

PA President Mahmoud Abbas addressing the UN General Assembly in September. Photo: UN.

The Guardian’s efforts to amplify the “injustice” of Israel’s continued existence in the context of the Balfour Centennial went into high gear when they published an op-ed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The op-ed included nearly every distortion and lie within what’s known as the ‘Palestinian narrative.’

Here are some of Abbas’ claims from his missive (“Britain must atone for the Balfour declaration — and 100 years of suffering,”).

Abbas claim:

[Balfour] disregard[ed] the political rights of those who already lived there.

Misleading.

The language used by Abbas (“those who already lived there”) buttresses the broader narrative, advanced repeatedly by Palestinian leaders, in their media and education system, that falsely frames Jews as interlopers with no historical or religious connection to the land of Israel.

In fact, Jews “already lived there” when Balfour was issued. Jew…